- #1 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
97% matchVery Positive93% of 1,953 reviews2021
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.
Why similar: Horror 35.3%, Immersive Sim 30.7%, Pixel Graphics 23.3%, Atmospheric 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines mundane simulation gameplay with a terrifying mascot-themed horror atmosphere.
- #2 Buddy Simulator 1984
96% matchVery Positive94% of 4,160 reviews2021
Dev: Not a Sailor Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, 1980s 19%, Horror 18%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the meta-horror and retro-simulation vibe of a game that slowly turns against the player.
- #3 Amanda the Adventurer
96% matchVery Positive94% of 7,050 reviews2023
Dev: MANGLEDmaw GamesPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Join Amanda and her pal Wooly on a series of adventures as they explore and learn about our wonderful world! With several NEW play-along, laugh-along, learn-along episodes there's always fun to be had! Just make sure to do everything Amanda says or she might get angry.
Why similar: Horror 29.8%, Point & Click 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Mystery 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Andy's Apple Farm, this title uses the guise of a retro educational show to hide a dark, psychological horror mystery.
- #4 PUMPKIN PANIC
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,521 reviews2024
Dev: Bilalaika
Windows
COME TO THIS COZY FARM! Plant crops, take care of the plants, go fishing, or whatever you prefer, but have a good time! But be carefull, they say that strange things are happening in the area...
Why similar: Horror 50.8%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Cute 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends simple farming simulation mechanics with a creeping sense of dread and perma-death stakes.
- #5 Doki Doki Literature Club!
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.9%, Horror 26.3%, Dark 12.2%, Cute 11.6%, Casual 2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy games that subvert expectations by hiding deep psychological horror behind a cute, innocent facade.
- #6 Harvest Island
94% matchVery Positive83% of 272 reviews2023
Dev: YobobPub: Yobob Games
Windows
Discover your sinister purpose in this horror farming game. Your idyllic farm life can't be trusted. Keep up with the façade as you give your crops to the gods. Explore the ominous island and question everything. You must fake your blissful farming days. Your life depends on it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Horror 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Dark 11.9%, Mystery 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deceptive farming simulator that slowly reveals a dark, mysterious narrative beneath its colorful exterior.
- #7 Who's Lila?
93% matchVery Positive95% of 3,515 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Horror 23%, Point & Click 22.4%, Casual 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique pixel-art psychological horror game that features a meta-narrative and complex branching paths similar to the seed game.
- #8 Fishing Vacation
92% matchVery Positive96% of 278 reviews2022
Dev: Teebowah Games
Windows
A Game Boy styled fishing horror adventure
Why similar: Horror 37.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.3%, Casual 17.1%, Simulation 16.5%, 2D 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This indie title uses a retro, low-fidelity art style to tell a short but deeply disturbing story.
- #9 FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,412 reviews2022
Dev: Airdorf GamesPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.1%, Horror 30.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%, Dark 10.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title utilizes a distinct 8-bit aesthetic to deliver a deeply unsettling and atmospheric horror experience.
- #10 Inscryption
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,157 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 42.7%, Point & Click 20.3%, Dark 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, 2D 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: It masterfully uses a game-within-a-game structure to hide dark secrets and psychological horror behind seemingly simple mechanics.
- #11 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 52%, Horror 36.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and pixelated psychological horror game that focuses on the fragility of the protagonist's mental state.
- #12 Bubbaruka!
90% matchVery Positive89% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: Benjamin SchadePub: Super Nova Studios
Windows
A survival horror puzzle game about exploring an abandoned children's toy, stalked by the shambling husks of scrapped concepts that pursue you endlessly throughout the environment as you try to solve the cryptic puzzles left behind by the developers and keep your pet alive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Cute 9.8%, Dark 8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a cute, cartoony aesthetic that masks a dark survival-horror experience.
- #13 Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
89% matchVery Positive93% of 15,106 reviews2022
Dev: Basically GamesPub: Basically Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Escape Baldi's schoolhouse again in this new remastered version of Baldi's Basics Classic! Use stealth and strategy to collect all 7 notebooks and win! Featuring three games in one, gameplay improvements, a more authentic art style, accessibility improvements, and brand new ways to play!
Why similar: Horror 57.7%, Pixel Graphics 24.2%, Arcade 18.1%
Why You'll Like It: It parodies 90s educational games with a retro aesthetic that quickly devolves into a stressful and surreal horror experience.
- #14 While We Wait Here
86% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Horror 17%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on dialogue and psychological tension within a confined setting, mirroring the narrative-heavy approach of the seed game.
- #15 Tear Factory
87% matchVery Positive90% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: Daddysucc5000
Windows
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
Why similar: Horror 22.2%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Dark 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A short, stylized horror game that leans heavily into retro, old-school pixel graphics and atmosphere.
- #16 Dark Fear
88% matchVery Positive94% of 232 reviews2016
Dev: Arif Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
Why similar: Horror 44.7%, Point & Click 33.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-style point-and-click adventure that blends RPG elements with classic horror tropes.
- #17 Baby Blues Nightmares - Toddler Horror Game Prologue
86% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Steelkrill Studio
Windows
Baby Blues Nightmare - Prologue is a small taste of the horrors that awaits in this survival horror game where you play as a toddler going into a little adventure with your tricycle which you can fix, maintain and customize. Paddle, hide and survive but remember; try not to cry when you are scared..
Why similar: Cartoony 13.9%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being in a cartoony, childlike world that is simultaneously threatening and surreal.
- #18 Midnight Crane
85% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Dekaizen Studios LLC
Windows
A psychological horror game where you spend a night in the shoes of an arcade worker named Marcus. Win prizes on the crane machine and shoot some hoops. Just make sure to keep the doors locked.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, Horror 16.5%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric adventure that focuses on exploration and subtle narrative cues in a stylized world.
- #19 Care
84% matchVery Positive96% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: The Pocket Dimension
Windows
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Horror 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-driven horror game that emphasizes interactive fiction and mystery-solving.
- #20 Cryptid Farm
84% matchVery Positive98% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: GameByFlamey
Windows
Cultivate a thriving farm to survive in this peaceful horror farming game! Play online with up to 16 players in the same lobby. Work together with your fellow farmers to repair your tractor and escape the farm, try not to fall victim to the eerie and mysterious creatures that lurk nearby.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.1%, Horror 28.4%, Casual 10.5%, Mystery 10.2%, 2D 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines farming simulation with horror elements, perfect for players who enjoyed the agricultural themes of the seed game.
- #21 Confabulation: Homestead
83% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Authogin
Windows
Horror puzzle game with spot-the-difference elements for survival. Complete interesting puzzles throughout your home to gain access to more areas and unlock more of the story all while using your modified camera to survive the threat that is lurking.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Horror 29.2%, Dark 14.4%, Mystery 12.1%, Casual 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy horror game that requires the player to piece together a dark history through exploration.
- #22 The Boba Teashop
81% matchVery Positive94% of 1,170 reviews2025
Dev: Mike Ten
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 21.5%, Walking Simulator 19.8%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Simulation 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-horror hybrid that uses a first-person perspective to build an eerie, atmospheric experience.
- #23 Disturbed
82% matchVery Positive93% of 1,856 reviews2016
Dev: iBlackpen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Point & Click 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Simulation 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play horror adventure that uses a simple art style to convey a bleak and psychological narrative.
- #24 The Closing Shift
81% matchMixed68% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Bird Box Games
Windows
A short interactive first-person horror game. Walk, look around, and talk to people to finish the short story about closing your restaurant. Complete the story with immersive sounds, and spooky tension and jumpscares to keep you focused.
Why similar: Horror 28.7%, Simulation 26.5%, Psychological Horror 25.3%, Dark 16.4%, Mystery 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-based horror game that builds tension through mundane tasks and a growing sense of being watched.
- #25 Midnight Special
80% matchVery Positive83% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Scared Stupid IncPub: Yahaha Games
Windows
Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?
Why similar: 1980s 19.1%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Point & Click 17.7%, Horror 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired survival horror game that focuses on exploration and managing limited resources.
- #26 Iron Lung
79% matchVery Positive92% of 10,453 reviews2022
Dev: David Szymanski
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Horror 27.8%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Walking Simulator 14%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: While different in setting, it shares the claustrophobic, short-form psychological horror intensity found in the seed game.
- #27 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,866 reviews2023
Dev: NankidaiPub: 0UP GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Point & Click 20.3%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Dark 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel that forces the player to make difficult choices in a high-stakes environment.
- #28 Gleaner Heights
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 376 reviews2018
Dev: Emilios Manolidis
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Experience the old-school charm of classic farming games with the suburban gothic atmosphere of certain 90's TV shows, along with contemporary game mechanics. Farming, crafting, combat, romantic relationships and mysterious events await!
Why similar: Horror 33.7%, Simulation 29.8%, Pixel Graphics 22.5%, Casual 14%
Why You'll Like It: A farming simulator that hides dark, mature themes and secrets beneath its seemingly idyllic village setting.
- #29 Garten of Banban 0
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,977 reviews2025
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…
Why similar: Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 21%, Cartoony 19.6%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Dark 9.8%
- #30 Winion Virus
77% matchVery Positive95% of 967 reviews2024
Dev: Dawntown Studio
Windows · Mac
Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.
Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Point & Click 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Simulation 8%
- #31 Storm the Swan - And the Power of FRIENDSHIP and IMAGINATION
76% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: CatTrigger
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 14%, Cartoony 11.3%
- #32 Garten of Banban
78% matchMixed53% of 12,506 reviews2023
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.3%, Horror 18.9%, Cartoony 18.2%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Dark 9.1%
- #33 Poppy Playtime
75% matchVery Positive88% of 132,662 reviews2021
Dev: Mob Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Why similar: Horror 44.4%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, 1980s 11.4%, Cartoony 9.5%, Dark 8.9%
- #34 The Cabin Factory
74% matchVery Positive91% of 3,493 reviews2024
Dev: International Cat StudiosPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Horror 20.4%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
- #35 Stay Out Of The Farm: Prologue
77% matchMixed58% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Yasha
Windows
Free Prologue to Stay Out Of The Farm, a ps1 styled horror game where you try to escape from a serial killer.
Why similar: 1980s 48.2%, Horror 28%, Simulation 23.8%
- #36 Garten of Banban 2
76% matchMixed67% of 4,368 reviews2023
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Continue the story of Banban’s Kindergarten. Delve deeper into the bizarre establishment where the place was left suspiciously empty. Try to survive the unexpected residents, all while uncovering the truth behind the place…
Why similar: Horror 23.2%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Cartoony 20.1%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Dark 9%
- #37 Nightmare Zapping
74% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Horror 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Point & Click 12.7%
- #38 Office After Hours
73% matchVery Positive95% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: gameandcode
Windows
Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Horror 16.6%, Simulation 6.8%
- #39 Whispering Lane: Horror
75% matchMixed65% of 156 reviews2024
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the dark secrets of the abandoned house on Whispering Lane in this psychological horror game. Navigate through perilous twists, where each turn reveals a blend of horror and mystery. Can you unearth the truth before darkness consumes you?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.5%, Psychological Horror 31.2%, Horror 28.6%, Atmospheric 8.7%
- #40 Beyond the Doors
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Dream Error
Windows · Linux
An atmospheric horror, exploration and automation game all set in the dim halls of an apartment building
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Horror 26.4%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Dark 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.1%
- #41 Garten of Banban 8: Anti Devil
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,468 reviews2025
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows
Explore the most obscure levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new deceives and mysteries that await you. Uncover the truth behind the place, and find the whereabouts of your missing child…
Why similar: Horror 23.8%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Cartoony 21.1%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Dark 9.8%
- #42 Cursed
73% matchVery Positive89% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: Disaster Squad Productions
Windows
A horrific retro point and click adventure with combat
Why similar: Point & Click 20.1%, Horror 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Cartoony 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%
- #43 KinitoPET
70% matchVery Positive93% of 14,022 reviews2024
Dev: troy_en
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.6%, Horror 25.4%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Simulation 5.5%
- #44 Crossroad OS
71% matchVery Positive99% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: GuyPub: Martin Games
Windows · Linux
Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.
Why similar: Cartoony 23.8%, Horror 17.8%, Point & Click 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Mystery 8.8%
- #45 Psychopathy Assessment
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Tarba Paul CornelPub: Galactic Crows
Windows
Psychopathy Assessment is a retro-80s V.H.S PS1 style analog horror game that blurs the line between reality and delusion. Step into a universe where you're not just playing a game; you're taking a psychopathy test, but the stakes are considerably higher than a straightforward diagnosis.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, 1980s 24.1%, Horror 20.4%, Simulation 20.3%, Mystery 8.1%
- #46 ANIMAL WELL
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,519 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Pixel Graphics 28.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Cute 9.6%
- #47 Midnight Monitor: Anomaly Watch
71% matchVery Positive92% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Viexi Games
Windows
A "spot the difference" horror game where you have to monitor cameras in a haunted house and report anomalies. You have no choice but to finish the job. Can you spot every anomaly? Can you survive the night?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Horror 24.6%, Point & Click 21.9%, Mystery 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #48 [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,034 reviews2024
Dev: Raycastly
Windows
Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.
Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, 1980s 18.7%, Walking Simulator 17.2%, Dark 6.6%
- #49 Kiosk
68% matchVery Positive88% of 2,518 reviews2025
Dev: Vivi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.
Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #50 Sally Face - Episode One
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 26,081 reviews2016
Dev: Portable Moose
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Horror 20.9%, Point & Click 17.3%, Dark 11.6%, Mystery 8%
- #51 East Wood Carnival
69% matchVery Positive80% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Elam Isaacs
Windows
A PSX retro horror game made by a sixth grader. Your car runs out of gas on your way to an abandoned carnival now infested with danger at every corner.
Why similar: Horror 30.2%, 1980s 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Dark 6.6%
- #52 VHS
68% matchVery Positive81% of 623 reviews2024
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
VHS, the most retro and nostalgic Idle game!
Why similar: Simulation 20.2%, Point & Click 17.5%, 1980s 16.8%, Arcade 15.2%, Casual 11.9%
- #53 Pink Noise
67% matchVery Positive92% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Somber GamesPub: Caspianborn Publishing
Windows
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 18.5%, Cartoony 16.5%, Point & Click 15.7%, Dark 7.4%
- #54 The Classrooms
68% matchVery Positive90% of 2,819 reviews2022
Dev: Xefier Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.9%, 1980s 24.9%, Horror 21.7%, Dark 10.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #55 SIMULACRA
70% matchVery Positive90% of 4,596 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Horror 19.9%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Point & Click 18.8%, Immersive Sim 17.2%, Simulation 8.5%
- #56 Play With Me: Escape Room
72% matchMixed63% of 528 reviews2018
Dev: Airem
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.1%, Horror 33.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, 2D 8.9%
- #57 What Happened to Lily?
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 142 reviews2025
Dev: Montee Games
Windows
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Horror 22.5%, Dark 9.5%, Mystery 7.9%
- #58 Julian & Friends
66% matchVery Positive91% of 279 reviews2025
Dev: JacksonG13Pub: JacksonGameStudios
Windows
Join Julian and his friends in this psychological horror experience inspired by point-n-click computer games from the early 2000s. Witness many shenanigans with characters from the infamous 98xx.
Why similar: Point & Click 20%, Cartoony 19.7%, Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Dark 8.2%
- #59 Midnight Syndrome
66% matchVery Positive99% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Horror 18.1%, Point & Click 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #60 The Test: Reality Check
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Education 20.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Horror 13.6%, Immersive Sim 12.8%